On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:44:26PM -0800, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:
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> On Jan 30, 2007, at 15:05, Matt Domsch wrote:
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> What kind of maintenance does the build system require? I have a
> currently unused Xserve G4 that I could install Linux ppc on.
It took just a little tweaking after not touching it since FC6's
release. Mostly code cleanups to deal with the fact that my mock
config files are named 'fedora-devel-i386-core.cfg' yet they cause
directories named 'fedora-development-i386-core' to get created in
various places. :-) The whole system is just a set of shell scripts
that essentially do:
for each SRPM in rawhide:
setarch i386 mock ...
mock ....
if successful, generate some logs
generate stats
rsync to a web server
send email
I tried to abstract out things like "directory where SRPMS live" and
"what arches should I build for" into shell variables, but I very much
expect to have the whole rawhide tree NFS-mounted. Would take some
work to use remote repos instead. Something like 20 invocations of
ls or find on various parts at various times.
It took ~60 hours to build core+extras, i386 and x86_64, on 4
dual-socket dual-core servers with 2-4GB RAM each and 2.8-3.6GHz
Xeons. Would presumably take nearly a week on a single ppc at first,
and a few hours the daily runs which are just incremental.
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Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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